9 Years Previously.
It was a bright day in a port at the edge of the land of fire; all was quiet and peaceful; Except for a blond boys harsh training on a huge ship docked at said port.
"Ouch! Kaka-Nii, That was mean, why did you do that? I wasn't ready!" A young blond boy cried out from his sitting position on the deck of the ship.
"I'm sorry Naruto, but I have to train you properly, which means I can't afford to take it easy on you." Kakashi said with a smile, with his one visible eye closed and head tilted slightly to the side giving him an air of innocence.
"Hmph, I still don't understand why you can't take this a little less seriously. You never take anything else seriously." Naruto sulked, crossing his arms he turning his head away from the silver haired man, pouting.
Kakashi walked over to Naruto and ruffled his hair. "I'm sorry Naruto, but you know why. You may have to fight for people to accept you when you come to live in Konoha because of what you hold, but even if that's the case don't worry, I'll always be there for you."
Naruto lightened up a little at the older man's words.
"Kaka-Nii... What's it like?" Naruto asked walking to the edge of the ship to look inland, smiling like only a small child could.
"Konoha?" Kakashi asked the blonde who just nodded happily, Kakashi smiled at Naruto."Well Naruto, as you know; it's a Ninja village. One of the main five and the most powerful of them. The people there, ninja and civilian alike; are some of the best people you will meet, they are kind open minded and brave. I know for a fact each and every one of them would give their lives to save another." He walked up to stand next to Naruto looking out towards the mainland.
"The village it's self is beautiful, it is surrounded by the biggest forest in all of the elemental nations. When the sun rises every morning it rises from behind the hokage mountains and bathes the village in light." He paused for a moment before looking to the young boy scratching the back of his head sheepishly "I'm sorry Naruto; It's hard to explain how amazing it is without seeing it" Kakashi explained before giving the blonde a famous Kakashi eye smile.
Present time.
"Nii-san, I thought you died with the village, how did you survive?" Naruto chocked out still crying into the man's chest.
Kakashi winced slightly, not much but enough for Naruto to notice. Sitting back Naruto took a good look at Kakashi, he quickly realised he was holding his cloak around his body too tightly, he was hiding something.
"Kakashi, what happened? What's with the cloak, because I KNOW that's not standard prison uniform." The blonde asked with a look of complete seriousness.
The silver haired man averted his eye choosing instead to look at the ground, pulling his cloak slightly closer to himself.
"They... Naruto, please. Don't..." Kakashi pleaded
Naruto had never seen Kakashi like this before, he looked so weak and helpless like a lost child; instead of the older stronger brother type figure the blonde had seen him as before.
He reached out to take the cloak, but Kakashi grabbed his wrist stopping him.
"Please, I don't want you to see." The silver haired man again pleaded with Naruto.
"I won't forgive you if you don't show me, remember what you always used to say to me? 'I'm doing this because I care.'"
With a weary sigh he let go of Naruto's wrist, he got to his feet pulling Naruto with him, grabbing the cloak he carefully took it off, exposing his torso fully.
Rage started to build in Naruto at seeing his long time friend; his entire upper body was filled with scares he KNEW were not there when he had last seen the silver haired man.
"Who did this to you?" The blondes tone was icy, Kakashi flinched.
"He did Naruto, when he took the village; he killed everyone. But I fought back after you were captured; I tried to save what was left of the village. So they captured me, they tortured me; but they refused to kill me." Kakashi said in nothing higher than a whisper, but Naruto had heard and he was not happy. For the moment he decided to let it go seeing how uncomfortable the older man was.
"What I don't understand is HOW you are here, Only my father and people he trusted could use the.. Gate, if you didn't know it before; I'm sorry, but we will never be able to get home from these seas."
Naruto explained with a deadly serious look on his face.
Kakashi looked at Naruto in shock before frowning.
"What is the 'gate'?"
Naruto leaned his head in, so his mouth was level with Kakashi's ear.
"It's a dimensional travel seal, Only I and one other know where it is; but neither of us know how to work it. This NEEDS to be kept a secret, do not under any circumstances tell anyone it even exists; although that being said. If you are here, that means there is another that knows."
Kakashi's eyes widen considerably at what the blonde had told him. He was just about to speak when he was cut off
"Let's not speak any further of this, you never know who could be listening." The blonde stated before turning to walk out the cell motioning that the silver haired man should follow him.
2 years previously.
A blonde haired teenager stood on a cliff looking at a city, or what was left of it.
"Oh no, I have to get down there quickly!" He leaped off the cliff, grabbing onto one of the out cropping rocks to slow his speed before hitting the ground.
He took off running down the broken streets of the once proud city, everywhere he looked there were collapsed buildings, fires burning at the few ones that still stood; but worst of all, there were many corpses.
'Has no one made it out alive?' he thought sadly.
Shaking his head he kept on running, unto he saw a large man wearing a black cloak with red clouds on it, the sight alone made him growl; but when he saw that the man was just about to execute a little boy in cold blood, that had him changing course running towards the man at full speed.
"Who the hell do you think you are!" the blonde raged as he jumped at the man throwing several shuriken. The man jumped out of the projectiles path, dropping the boy to the ground. Not letting up on his attack the teen continued his charge drawing out a kunai intent on ending the man's life, only for it to be blocked by the man's arm.
Now getting a closer look at the man, he realised this guy was; for want of a better word, a freak. He was tall and built like a tank, he also had some metal domes sticking out from the top of his head. Jumping back Naruto was just about to try and attack again when the man spoke.
"You. You are Naruto Namikaze, correct?" he asked void of emotion.
The blonde blond blinked in slight confusion, before understanding hit.
"You destroyed this place looking for me?" Naruto replied locking eyes with the other man.
"It was a required sacrifice, now come with me Namikaze." The man replied taking a step towards Naruto.
Naruto growled out before taking a low stance, readying himself to charge the older and larger man.
Present Time.
The two walked strolled over to the group of people waiting for them.
"What the hell took you so long, brat?" Barked an annoyed looking crocodile.
The blonde looked at crocodile before grinning "I found him, Sandman."
At first crocodile looked shocked by what the boy had said before he schooled his face into a sinister looking smile.
"Looks like the Marines are finally going to have something to be really scared of now, Aren't they? Sharingan Kakashi and of course, The Legendary Feral Gale."
"So it is true, you really ARE him; but how? You should have been dead for hundreds of years at least." Invankov said looking at Naruto in awe.
"Y'know, the standard stuff. Skill, an absurd amount of luck, stupidly overkill moves; same old stuff you would find in any one as sexy as I am." Naruto said with a disinterested look.
"Naruto, what do you mean? How are you be legendary! You don't even have a bounty?" Luffy questioned obviously not believing what was being said.
"I'm legendary because they don't want me to be Luffy, You won't find me in anything but a whisper; this world thinks of me as nothing more than a ghost, which in all honesty; I should be." The blonde said cryptically walking away looking for the nearest stair case, leaving the rest of the group.
"The history which is illegal to research, do you know why no one is allowed to know those years?" He said turning to look back towards the group. "It's illegal because everything you know is a lie."
End Chapter.